Vasili Zhukov

Vasili Zhukov (6 June 1968-3 October 2016) was the Commissar for Defense of Ultranationalist Russia in 2016. Elected on 11 August along with the cabinet of President Boris Vorshevsky, Zhukov was disliked by other politicians, but Vorshevsky claimed that "that is why (Zhukov) is good at his job)". In the 3 October 2016 Il-96-300PU hijacking, Zhukov survived the plane crash but was shot when Vorshevsky was captured.

Biography
Zhukov was born in Strelkovka in Kaluga Oblast. He was a grandson of World War II Russian hero Georgy Zhukov, the man who had stopped the German invasion of Russia and captured Berlin in May 1945. Vasili had an esteemed family and he became involved in law and later politics, backing the Communist Party of the Soviet Union when he entered politics at the age of 22. When the USSR was overthrown by the nationalist Russian Federation in 1991, Zhukov continued to back communism and criticized Boris Yeltsin's democratic government. He supported Imran Zakhaev's Ultranationalist Party, and during the Second Russian Civil War of 2011, he was a large supporter of warfare against the Loyalists. After Zakhaev's successor Boris Vorshevsky took power and was elected President of Russia on 11 August 2016, Zhukov was elected as Minister for Defense at the age of 48. Unpopular among many politicians, Vorshevsky knew that he was good at his job and respected him.

When an American soldier was found dead among known Inner Circle terrorists after the Zakhaev Int'l. Airport Massacre of 13 August 2016, Zhukov backed Vorshevsky's decision to plunge Russia into war with the United States, and was responsible for the boosting of Russian Army troops in the war. But when Vorshevsky attempted to make peace with the United States in October 2016 at a peace summit in Hamburg, Zhukov had not forgotten the airport massacre and was staunchy opposed to the move. The Russian cabinet debated over the case that they would present on Il-96-300PU (the President's Plane) while it took them to Hamburg, but it was interrupted when Inner Circle terrorists hijacked the plane. Zhukov was lucky to survive, with a wounded arm; all of Vorshevsky's ministers were killed in the storming of the room. When the plane crashed, Zhukov and Vorshevsky survived, but while escaping the scene to a helicopter supposed to pick them up, they found out that terrorist leader Vladimir Makarov was in the helicopter. Makarov shot Commander Leonid Pudovkin and Agent Andrei Harkov, and Zhukov was shot in the back while running away.